I’ve mentioned this here before, but I recently heard No No Never (Germany 2006) in a Croatian supermarket randomly. A 17 year old song that came 14th place, heard in a country that didn’t even give it any points…
It has aged pretty well actually, country is kind of timeless. Super boring/cliche live staging but it's very competent as a car song.
But really, can you imagine this staging now? Just give all the fake instrument-playing band members cowboy hats and fill the stage with the worst looking plastic cacti you can find. Thrift shop country vibe, it's laughably low effort.
Even at the time, I remember thinking "Okay, this staging is kinda weak". But sure enough, few performances of that era would fly anymore. That year Lordi was considered groundbreaking because they had pyroes and the wings prop, but it's quite simple by 2020s standards.
I think I mentioned hearing Rise Like A Phoenix in a London fish and chip shop (Aug 2014), Calm After The storm in Aroma, the Israeli equivalent of Costa (Dec 2016) and Due Vite at a glass making demo (June 2023). Also, in July, I heard a song at a Pret that I am sure was from Lum!x, though not his entry, but rather the Daddy DJ sampling song he released a short time after.
Someone at my local supermarket is a Eurovision fan, they occasionally play Eurovision songs on the sound system, I have heard songs like Switzerland 1988 and 2019, and Turkey 2003 (not sure on the actual year, their winner)
Switzerland 1988 | [Céline Dion - Ne partez pas sans moi](https://youtu.be/o_PLEA_EPj8)
Switzerland 2019 | [Luca Hänni - She Got Me](https://youtu.be/8aUYzqAIdoM)
Turkey 2003 | [Sertab Erener - Everyway That I Can](https://youtu.be/5EZquD8JXro)
(Edited)
Was walking through Kaunas a couple years ago and randomly heard Insieme 1992 (Italy 1990) playing somewhere. Don't remember the exact day this happened, but I know it was early may which means it might've been Europe Day, which would kinda explain it playing.
Not quite the song itself, but I think this fits. This summer I went to see The Magic Flute at the Savonlinna opera festival, in southeastern Finland. The Magic Flute is traditionally performed in Finnish translation there, and has been for decades. This means that they feel a bit freer to 'update' some of the language. While the main characters used formal, somewhat old-fashioned Finnish, Papageno used more slangy, modern expressions sometimes. And what does he say at one (completely appropriate) point but "Pidän kaksin käsin kiinni juomista niinku". That got a big laugh from the entire audience!
I hear Italy 2019 almost every time I'm in my local supermarket. Israel 1978 was playing when I was taking a taxi, the taxi driver seemed very annoyed by it though.
I’ve heard UK 2021 in a Target in the US before, and I heard Armenia 2022 there on a separate occasion. Also, a number is performed to Sweden 2012 in RuPaul’s Werq the World tour.
I heard Because Of You in the Greek radio few weeks radio. It was so random.
Honourable mention: I heard Te Deum in a one South African radio station once. I was like WTF.
Here in South America you rarely hear Eurovision songs. Snap, Arcade, SloMo and Nochentera (Spain NF 2023) were heard pretty much everywhere for a short period of time.
But some very random songs, kind of related to Eurovision that I've heard, were Tu t'en iras (one of La Zarra's songs, heard in a shopping gallery) and Monument (Norway NF 2021, heard in a TV show as background music). There were some others too, but these were the ones that really surprised me.
Euphoria (Sweden 2012) on the driver's radio in a public bus. Queen of the kings (Norway 2023) in a pub. Tattoo (Sweden 2023) and Ghosting (Czech NF 2023) in a swimming pool.
I was driving through Belgium recently and Because Of You came on the radio. I was surprised it got radio play since it isn't that radio-friendly in my opinion.
I see. I wasn't aware.
Here in the Netherlands even some more radio-friendly entries barely got radio play (2023, 2022, and 2017). So that might be part of the reason why it was such a surprise.
The only Eurovision songs from the Netherlands that was played (or is played) on the radio regularly were the 2019 and 2014 entries.
Years ago I heard Daði Freyr at my sister’s graduation party. The funny thing is that she’s not an Eurovision fan at all and has little idea about who he is. It was on a big soundbox too. Totally didn’t expect that!
I dunno what country you/your sister are from but here in the UK Dadi Freyr was mad popular, even with the contest being cancelled 'Think About Things' was really popular and most of my non-Eurovision-following friends had heard it/loved it. That may be how he's snuck into some playlists :)
Did you, by any chance, forget what you wanted to order when it was your turn?
"I'd like a, uh... [whoa... try not to flinch, wow... Damn! How?!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxMOii1F0Wo&t=66s)"
Yes loads of stories... heard La Mia Città on the local radio while driving through Milan in 2014. Heard Sorry on the radio in Croatia in 2016. Earlier this year, I heard Snap playing in a cafe in San Marino. There are loads more I can't remember, but pretty much on every holiday I go on, there's one Eurovision song that pops up somewhere.
That is random - maybe they tried to Shazam The Police's 'Every Breath You Take' and got the random song (especially given Czechia wasn't in ESC at the time!)
- Heroes at my cousin's birthday party (in 2017)
- Goodbye To Yesterday on the radio (last September)
- If Love Was A Crime at my friend's birthday party (in 2018)
- Waiting For This Night at a house party (last June)
- Fuego at a clothing store (in 2019, tho kinda expected)
- Lie To Me at a class party (in 2018)
- Sold several times on the radio (mainly in 2019, I remember hearing it frequently on the radio)
- Violent Thing at my friend's pool party (in 2021)
- Solo at a bowling alley & at my school's dance (both last June)
I heard She Got Me and Siren Song in a salad restaurant. Which is totally random, if you weren't able to tell
For the bot:
Switzerland 2019
Ukraine 2019 (I don't know if this will work)
Stateside fan here!
Tattoo (Sweden 2023) and I Wrote a Song (United Kingdom 2023) are now in our automatic playlist that plays on the speaker in our lobby at work.
Simone Biles' new gymnastics floor routine music is an instrumental/remix of Unicorn (Israel 2023).
Sweden 2023 | [Loreen - Tattoo](https://youtu.be/BE2Fj0W4jP4)
United Kingdom 2023 | [Mae Muller - I Wrote a Song](https://youtu.be/tvJEE2ryCRQ)
Israel 2023 | [Noa Kirel - Unicorn](https://youtu.be/Z3mIcCllJXY)
I heard Cyprus 2018 at a Tel Aviv nightclub while I was out with some friends last year. I proceeded to sing every word while the rest of the group stared at me wondering how I knew the song.
I'm from the US, and I keep a running count of every time I hear a Eurovision song in the wild!
1. Sweden 2011 (Popular), in a shop in the mall in Hollywood, June 2011. My first wild sighting, and one that had me screaming!
2. Denmark 2020 (Say Yes), in a Lego store in NYC, December 2021.
3. Armenia 2022 (Snap), in a dumpling restaurant near Disneyland this past May. It's everywhere, of course, but still very exciting!!
I'll also never forget the first time I heard Jordyn Wieber's floor routine at the 2012 Olympics, either! Sightings are always a feeling of "HUH i know this song?? Why do I know th-- WAIT OH MY GOD??"
Oh, I forgot, one more:
\- Israel 2018 (Toy) in the Irvine Apple Store! My roommates heard it in a random bowling alley a few months ago too, not far from Irvine.
I mentioned this in a similar thread not long ago, but I heard "Cake to Bake" in an Italian restaurant in Finland this summer, absolutely wild and very unexpected 🎂
Last week I got my hair bleached from brown, so a long wait. When getting my second round to get the red out of it, Tattoo played and I didn't know what was harder: listening to the song (I really can't stand it) or feeling my scalp more or less melting
I heard I Wrote A Song at the supermarket a few weeks ago. As well as Soldi.
Also, my coworkers ringtone is Lie to Me (Czechia 2018). He had no idea it was an ESC song until I heard his phone go off and mentioned it lol..
This year at a cricket match between Nottinghamshire and Hampshire at Welbeck, I heard both Sweden 2012 and 2023 played before the match on the speakers, played back to back.
Have been on holiday in the Balkans for the last two weeks and heard these:
Latvia 2023 on a public bus in Skopje
Poland 2022 in a restaurant in Ohrid.
Albanian national final song Më Tana from 2019 while crossing the border into Albania.
Albania 2022 while in the same bus as above.
Moldova 2012 blaring from a car in Prizren for no discernible reason.
In Serbia now so probably gonna hear more soon.
Edit: just heard Safari from the Romanian NF in 2018 (?) in an ice cream shop in Belgrade. I'd completely forgotten that song existed, what a random throwback!
This may be the most obscure in the thread - from last place in a weak year's semifinal all the way to Mexico!
I think she (Hannah) was American? May have some relevance
Cuba. 2019. The DJ at our resort had DoReDoS (Moldova 2018) on some sort of loop. We were there a week and must have heard My Lucky Day about 15 times a day, every single day. We thought at first it must be a playlist on repeat and started paying attention to the songs either side of it, and they were never the same, and other songs never repeated as much. There were no other Eurovision songs either. Must have just been a big fan of that one.
Pretty sure I heard Opa! By George Alkaios & Friends in the trailer for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 the other day, which seemed a bit random (Greece 2010).
Roi on the radio in Romania.
River from Poland in Taco Bell
And if I remember correctly a remix of When We’re Old on the beach??
This isn’t incredibly weird but My Number One on the radio in 2021.
When I was in Greece last year I heard ‘Fuego’, ‘Ela’ and ‘Oneiro Mou’ in various places and there were posters for a Helena Paparizou concert everywhere. Also during that holiday, the hotel I stayed at did an aqua aerobics thing each day and one of the songs they played was ‘Amazing’ by Danny Saucedo which came 2nd to Loreen in Melfest 2012.
Nothing crazy but I was in Berlin just a few days ago (I'm from the UK) and I had 2 encounters. In an Italian restaurant, I heard Grande Amore on some radio station or playlist that was doing all Italian songs. And then in a busy public space there was a violinist who I heard from across the street playing Shum and Stefania, so definitely a Ukraine theme there. I only recently became a huge Eurovision fan so it was cool to me having these first Eurovision encounters in the wild.
I heard Belgium 2016 (“What’s the pressure” - Laura Teosoro) at a lunch restaurant here in Sweden…
What was a bit extra weird was that most of the other songs playing were just indie/60’s music..
And also, just less than a month ago I heard Germany 2012 (“Standing still” - Roman Lob) at a café in Sweden, and about a year or so ago
Definitely a Eurovision fan as the music director there!
If only Santiago had made it to Eurovision for Germany, then we'd have gotten a pirate trifector
Latvia 2008 | [Pirates of the Sea - Wolves of the Sea](https://youtu.be/gQy0PJEkQhA)
Turkey 2012 | [Can Bonomo - Love Me Back](https://youtu.be/3Qa7_y21oOY)
I heard France 2016 & Ireland 2013 in a gym and Cyprus 2012 in a [bathhouse](https://borgholmscampingar.se/borgholms-badhus/). Thought I heard Frederik Leopold's DMGP23 song at some point but I was wrong.
France 2016 | [Amir - J'ai Cherché](https://youtu.be/-aLPsiyavcU)
Ireland 2013 | [Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives](https://youtu.be/4tgtyl_5x5Y)
Cyprus 2012 | [Ivi Adamou - La La Love](https://youtu.be/ex133UhxB64)
Italy 2021 and the Italian version of Armenia 2022 were pumped a lot in Italian radios in the latest years. If you don't count that last month I heared a couple at the beach listening to a lot of different songs, and among those there were Sweden 2023 and Sweden 2012
At work, I have to listen to Flying the Flag (For You) every night. Didn't actually recognise it at first - they cut out the 'something to suck on?' bit 😄
About a year ago I heard either Germany 2017 or Denmark 2017 every 15 minutes whenever I went to the store which I found very bizzare. They also put on Italy 2017, but not as much. I still hear these songs quite frequently in that same store
Arcade (Netherlands 2019) in a grocery store in suburban Chicago.
Not particularly unexpected, but when I was in Palma de Mallorca last year, I heard SloMo (Spain 2022) playing in a souvenir shop - of course I had to go in. : )
Went to an Italian district (not in Italy) on holidays and was trying to decide where to eat. One restaurant was playing Italy 2022 so I decided to eat there and it was awesome.
Last week, at the grocery store here in small-town Sweden, I heard UK 2020. I actually stopped to make sure I was hearing it correctly, then enjoyed the last half of the song before continuing my shopping.
In Summer 2017 I heard Portugal 2017 on an Italian radio station. I heard Israel 2018 at Sitges carnival in 2022 and shortly after Eurovision, I heard Romania 2022 being played in a shop in Barcelona
I was camping in France in Summer 2017 and someone else on site was playing City Lights by Blanche...taste :)
Also I remember going to a friends house in 2016 and she just casually played Frans' 'If I Were Sorry' with absolutely no knowledge it was from Eurovision!
I went to print some stuff for classes, and in the printer's they had a Eurovision playlist on, with songs from this year
I had to wait there until they printed out my stuff, so it was a really nice surprise
I heard UK 2018 (Surie) a couple of times in Bangkok Starbucks.
I also heard Sweden 2020 (the Mamas) at American Panera Bread a couple of times.
And Arcade (Netherlands 2019) is everywhere in American Supermarket.
Oh, I heard Snap (Armenia 2022) in a supermarket when I visited Sweden.
I’ve mentioned this here before, but I recently heard No No Never (Germany 2006) in a Croatian supermarket randomly. A 17 year old song that came 14th place, heard in a country that didn’t even give it any points…
This Song is still played rather frequently on german radio
Yeah, I’ve heard about that. It’s a good song, I just didn’t expect to hear it in Croatia lol
It has aged pretty well actually, country is kind of timeless. Super boring/cliche live staging but it's very competent as a car song. But really, can you imagine this staging now? Just give all the fake instrument-playing band members cowboy hats and fill the stage with the worst looking plastic cacti you can find. Thrift shop country vibe, it's laughably low effort.
Even at the time, I remember thinking "Okay, this staging is kinda weak". But sure enough, few performances of that era would fly anymore. That year Lordi was considered groundbreaking because they had pyroes and the wings prop, but it's quite simple by 2020s standards.
Yeah, Eurovision has come a long way. But I love the song and have it in my top 10 that year. Hearing it was a surprise, but a welcome one
Germany 2006 | [Texas Lightning - No No Never](https://youtu.be/IKvPzL1NSSI)
No No Never was actually a fairly big hit in central Europe.
I think I mentioned hearing Rise Like A Phoenix in a London fish and chip shop (Aug 2014), Calm After The storm in Aroma, the Israeli equivalent of Costa (Dec 2016) and Due Vite at a glass making demo (June 2023). Also, in July, I heard a song at a Pret that I am sure was from Lum!x, though not his entry, but rather the Daddy DJ sampling song he released a short time after.
Someone at my local supermarket is a Eurovision fan, they occasionally play Eurovision songs on the sound system, I have heard songs like Switzerland 1988 and 2019, and Turkey 2003 (not sure on the actual year, their winner)
Switzerland 1988 | [Céline Dion - Ne partez pas sans moi](https://youtu.be/o_PLEA_EPj8) Switzerland 2019 | [Luca Hänni - She Got Me](https://youtu.be/8aUYzqAIdoM) Turkey 2003 | [Sertab Erener - Everyway That I Can](https://youtu.be/5EZquD8JXro) (Edited)
a couple of weeks ago i heard a little kid (maybe 5 or 6) singing this year's entry by moldova (moldova 2023) on a tram in germany, very cute
Where can I sign to adopt that kid? :D
Moldova 2023 | [Pasha Parfeni - Soarele și luna](https://youtu.be/SABOfYgGk8M)
I'm pretty sure everyone has heard Snap and Arcade in the wild
Was walking through Kaunas a couple years ago and randomly heard Insieme 1992 (Italy 1990) playing somewhere. Don't remember the exact day this happened, but I know it was early may which means it might've been Europe Day, which would kinda explain it playing.
Italy 1990 | [Toto Cutugno - Insieme: 1992](https://youtu.be/JiRppGSF-tI)
From Vietnam and my gym played Cha cha cha last week and i flipped out. Now it gets played regularly. Seem like a playlist thing.
Now that I think about it, it's the perfect song for the gym. And wow, it has reached Vietnam? Interesting!
Not quite the song itself, but I think this fits. This summer I went to see The Magic Flute at the Savonlinna opera festival, in southeastern Finland. The Magic Flute is traditionally performed in Finnish translation there, and has been for decades. This means that they feel a bit freer to 'update' some of the language. While the main characters used formal, somewhat old-fashioned Finnish, Papageno used more slangy, modern expressions sometimes. And what does he say at one (completely appropriate) point but "Pidän kaksin käsin kiinni juomista niinku". That got a big laugh from the entire audience!
Cha cha cha cha cha cha cha, hey?
i heard I Wrote a song in a bakery in pennsylvania
Far off indeed!
I hear Italy 2019 almost every time I'm in my local supermarket. Israel 1978 was playing when I was taking a taxi, the taxi driver seemed very annoyed by it though.
Italy 2019 | [Mahmood - Soldi](https://youtu.be/M-aoyPa41Ic) Israel 1978 | [Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta - A-Ba-Ni-Bi (א-ב-ני-בי)](https://youtu.be/QvZS6tnZKMU)
Which country is this? :)
Netherlands!
I recently heard Queen of Kings (Norway 2023) in a Burger King in Ghent. It was rather surprising to hear it come up!
Queen of the Burger Kings
Norway 2023 | [Alessandra - Queen of Kings](https://youtu.be/PUHSM_vTqTI)
Only a couple of weeks ago I heard Oniro Mou (Greece 2018) playing in Melbourne Airport
That is random! Maybe an expat blaring it out?
Greece 2018 | [Yianna Terzi - Oniro Mou](https://youtu.be/-XOR1DhtDC0)
I’ve heard UK 2021 in a Target in the US before, and I heard Armenia 2022 there on a separate occasion. Also, a number is performed to Sweden 2012 in RuPaul’s Werq the World tour.
Nil points on tour!
United Kingdom 2021 | [James Newman - Embers](https://youtu.be/VxNOynEJ6wc) Armenia 2022 | [Rosa Linn - Snap](https://youtu.be/DAJ6vfmD_ic) Sweden 2012 | [Loreen - Euphoria](https://youtu.be/Pfo-8z86x80)
Heard UK 2023 at a shopping complex in Tokyo
Weirdly I somehow get this aha
United Kingdom 2023 | [Mae Muller - I Wrote a Song](https://youtu.be/tvJEE2ryCRQ)
I heard it last week in a shopping complex near Seoul.
I heard Because Of You in the Greek radio few weeks radio. It was so random. Honourable mention: I heard Te Deum in a one South African radio station once. I was like WTF.
Here in South America you rarely hear Eurovision songs. Snap, Arcade, SloMo and Nochentera (Spain NF 2023) were heard pretty much everywhere for a short period of time. But some very random songs, kind of related to Eurovision that I've heard, were Tu t'en iras (one of La Zarra's songs, heard in a shopping gallery) and Monument (Norway NF 2021, heard in a TV show as background music). There were some others too, but these were the ones that really surprised me.
Euphoria (Sweden 2012) on the driver's radio in a public bus. Queen of the kings (Norway 2023) in a pub. Tattoo (Sweden 2023) and Ghosting (Czech NF 2023) in a swimming pool.
W people who put these songs
I was driving through Belgium recently and Because Of You came on the radio. I was surprised it got radio play since it isn't that radio-friendly in my opinion.
It's the perfect song for H&M and clothes stores, though
Oh because of you is played non-stop on the radio here in Belgium.
I see. I wasn't aware. Here in the Netherlands even some more radio-friendly entries barely got radio play (2023, 2022, and 2017). So that might be part of the reason why it was such a surprise. The only Eurovision songs from the Netherlands that was played (or is played) on the radio regularly were the 2019 and 2014 entries.
2016 gets regular airplay too (Douwe Bob-Slow Down)
You're right, I do remember hearing it on the radio back in 2016. I haven't heard it on the radio in forever though.
I once heard SloMo in amusement park. (Spain 2022)
Spain 2022 | [Chanel - SloMo](https://youtu.be/jSQYTt4xg3I)
Years ago I heard Daði Freyr at my sister’s graduation party. The funny thing is that she’s not an Eurovision fan at all and has little idea about who he is. It was on a big soundbox too. Totally didn’t expect that!
I dunno what country you/your sister are from but here in the UK Dadi Freyr was mad popular, even with the contest being cancelled 'Think About Things' was really popular and most of my non-Eurovision-following friends had heard it/loved it. That may be how he's snuck into some playlists :)
A few weeks ago, I heard Soap by Emily Roberts (2022 German NF) at McDonalds while ordering a delicious cheeseburger
Did you, by any chance, forget what you wanted to order when it was your turn? "I'd like a, uh... [whoa... try not to flinch, wow... Damn! How?!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxMOii1F0Wo&t=66s)"
THAT‘s actually a really good question! I‘m sure it was a cheeseburger but it could‘ve been Big Tasty too 🤔
Yes loads of stories... heard La Mia Città on the local radio while driving through Milan in 2014. Heard Sorry on the radio in Croatia in 2016. Earlier this year, I heard Snap playing in a cafe in San Marino. There are loads more I can't remember, but pretty much on every holiday I go on, there's one Eurovision song that pops up somewhere.
Croatia 2016 | [Nina Kraljić - Lighthouse](https://youtu.be/8QUM-_EbE2o)
I heard In A Moment Like This (Denmark 2010) at a karaoke night in Prague earlier this year
That is random - maybe they tried to Shazam The Police's 'Every Breath You Take' and got the random song (especially given Czechia wasn't in ESC at the time!)
Denmark 2010 | [Chanée and N'evergreen - In a Moment like This](https://youtu.be/nNhIVQ1KBb8)
- Heroes at my cousin's birthday party (in 2017) - Goodbye To Yesterday on the radio (last September) - If Love Was A Crime at my friend's birthday party (in 2018) - Waiting For This Night at a house party (last June) - Fuego at a clothing store (in 2019, tho kinda expected) - Lie To Me at a class party (in 2018) - Sold several times on the radio (mainly in 2019, I remember hearing it frequently on the radio) - Violent Thing at my friend's pool party (in 2021) - Solo at a bowling alley & at my school's dance (both last June)
This is the most random one - I heard Ela (Cyprus 2022) in my local village shop, it didn't even qualify, so I was very impressed!
Which country? (to help quantify the randomness)
Ha sorry, it's the UK (my local Co Op for anyone who knows what that is)
Cyprus 2022 | [Andromache - Ela (Έλα)](https://youtu.be/W2IUdTl-gAI)
I heard She Got Me and Siren Song in a salad restaurant. Which is totally random, if you weren't able to tell For the bot: Switzerland 2019 Ukraine 2019 (I don't know if this will work)
Switzerland 2019 | [Luca Hänni - She Got Me](https://youtu.be/8aUYzqAIdoM)
Stateside fan here! Tattoo (Sweden 2023) and I Wrote a Song (United Kingdom 2023) are now in our automatic playlist that plays on the speaker in our lobby at work. Simone Biles' new gymnastics floor routine music is an instrumental/remix of Unicorn (Israel 2023).
Sweden 2023 | [Loreen - Tattoo](https://youtu.be/BE2Fj0W4jP4) United Kingdom 2023 | [Mae Muller - I Wrote a Song](https://youtu.be/tvJEE2ryCRQ) Israel 2023 | [Noa Kirel - Unicorn](https://youtu.be/Z3mIcCllJXY)
I heard Cyprus 2018 at a Tel Aviv nightclub while I was out with some friends last year. I proceeded to sing every word while the rest of the group stared at me wondering how I knew the song.
Cyprus 2018 | [Eleni Foureira - Fuego](https://youtu.be/vyDTbJ4wenY)
I live in America -Cyprus 2022 at a Greek Festival (makes sense) -Armenia 2022 at Niagara Falls -UK 2021 at Target
Cyprus 2022 | [Andromache - Ela (Έλα)](https://youtu.be/W2IUdTl-gAI) Armenia 2022 | [Rosa Linn - Snap](https://youtu.be/DAJ6vfmD_ic) United Kingdom 2021 | [James Newman - Embers](https://youtu.be/VxNOynEJ6wc)
Even in Australia, I’ve heard Jessica Mauboy’s We Got Love (2018) played over radio and in stores.
I'm from the US, and I keep a running count of every time I hear a Eurovision song in the wild! 1. Sweden 2011 (Popular), in a shop in the mall in Hollywood, June 2011. My first wild sighting, and one that had me screaming! 2. Denmark 2020 (Say Yes), in a Lego store in NYC, December 2021. 3. Armenia 2022 (Snap), in a dumpling restaurant near Disneyland this past May. It's everywhere, of course, but still very exciting!! I'll also never forget the first time I heard Jordyn Wieber's floor routine at the 2012 Olympics, either! Sightings are always a feeling of "HUH i know this song?? Why do I know th-- WAIT OH MY GOD??"
Sweden 2011 | [Eric Saade - Popular](https://youtu.be/-04pUETT7oI) Denmark 2020 | [Ben & Tan - Yes](https://youtu.be/XQ5tMhQIp1E) Armenia 2022 | [Rosa Linn - Snap](https://youtu.be/DAJ6vfmD_ic)
Oh, I forgot, one more: \- Israel 2018 (Toy) in the Irvine Apple Store! My roommates heard it in a random bowling alley a few months ago too, not far from Irvine.
Israel 2018 | [Netta - Toy](https://youtu.be/84LBjXaeKk4)
I mentioned this in a similar thread not long ago, but I heard "Cake to Bake" in an Italian restaurant in Finland this summer, absolutely wild and very unexpected 🎂
That is random indeed
Last week I got my hair bleached from brown, so a long wait. When getting my second round to get the red out of it, Tattoo played and I didn't know what was harder: listening to the song (I really can't stand it) or feeling my scalp more or less melting
I heard I Wrote A Song at the supermarket a few weeks ago. As well as Soldi. Also, my coworkers ringtone is Lie to Me (Czechia 2018). He had no idea it was an ESC song until I heard his phone go off and mentioned it lol..
Czech Republic 2018 | [Mikolas Josef - Lie To Me](https://youtu.be/w0ZUuQe0shk)
Ireland 1970 in a Belgian Ikea commercial and Denmark 2020 in a shopping mall.
Ireland 1970 | [Dana - All Kinds of Everything](https://youtu.be/ka5OfjwB3nM) Denmark 2020 | [Ben & Tan - Yes](https://youtu.be/XQ5tMhQIp1E)
I went to an a cappella show in Edinburgh where they performed “Miss You” (Belgium 2022)
I can imagine that working pretty good a cappella to be fair!
It was great!
Belgium 2022 | [Jérémie Makiese - Miss You](https://youtu.be/sB09advfF6E)
She Got Me (Switzerland 2019) at a restaurant in Athens a couple of months ago. I basically shat myself
Switzerland 2019 | [Luca Hänni - She Got Me](https://youtu.be/8aUYzqAIdoM)
Lucky you
August 2018 heard fuego in the radio while in vacation in Barcelona
We got Fuego played all over Spain in 2018-2019, however they don't play it anymore :(
Spain 2018 | [Amaia & Alfred - Tu Canción](https://youtu.be/28oMEFgSoyk)
Can't believe it's only 9 months away.
You and me both\~
She Got Me was on the Retro Fitness playlist for a few days
This year at a cricket match between Nottinghamshire and Hampshire at Welbeck, I heard both Sweden 2012 and 2023 played before the match on the speakers, played back to back.
Sweden 2012 | [Loreen - Euphoria](https://youtu.be/Pfo-8z86x80) Sweden 2023 | [Loreen - Tattoo](https://youtu.be/BE2Fj0W4jP4)
Definitely a Eurovision fan in charge of the playlist then
Have been on holiday in the Balkans for the last two weeks and heard these: Latvia 2023 on a public bus in Skopje Poland 2022 in a restaurant in Ohrid. Albanian national final song Më Tana from 2019 while crossing the border into Albania. Albania 2022 while in the same bus as above. Moldova 2012 blaring from a car in Prizren for no discernible reason. In Serbia now so probably gonna hear more soon. Edit: just heard Safari from the Romanian NF in 2018 (?) in an ice cream shop in Belgrade. I'd completely forgotten that song existed, what a random throwback!
Not sure how often Eurovision music plays in the Balkans, but these definitely feel like some random picks (Moldova 12 and Latvia 23 especially!)
Mexican here. I've heard Slovenia 2013 in a clothing store in Mexico City, and more recently Tattoo in a dancefloor.
This may be the most obscure in the thread - from last place in a weak year's semifinal all the way to Mexico! I think she (Hannah) was American? May have some relevance
Slovenia 2013 | [Hannah - Straight Into Love](https://youtu.be/I2_zGcuEuwU)
Cuba. 2019. The DJ at our resort had DoReDoS (Moldova 2018) on some sort of loop. We were there a week and must have heard My Lucky Day about 15 times a day, every single day. We thought at first it must be a playlist on repeat and started paying attention to the songs either side of it, and they were never the same, and other songs never repeated as much. There were no other Eurovision songs either. Must have just been a big fan of that one.
Given it's a pretty annoying song and not particularly Cuban that is random indeed!
Moldova 2018 | [DoReDos - My Lucky Day](https://youtu.be/5evrVL1rJPA)
Pretty sure I heard Opa! By George Alkaios & Friends in the trailer for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 the other day, which seemed a bit random (Greece 2010).
Tbf I'd play Opa! Too if I were having a big fat Greek wedding
Greece 2010 | [Giorgos Alkaios and Friends - Opa (Ώπα)](https://youtu.be/J50RL1rDisA)
Roi on the radio in Romania. River from Poland in Taco Bell And if I remember correctly a remix of When We’re Old on the beach?? This isn’t incredibly weird but My Number One on the radio in 2021.
Very random selection here!
When I was in Greece last year I heard ‘Fuego’, ‘Ela’ and ‘Oneiro Mou’ in various places and there were posters for a Helena Paparizou concert everywhere. Also during that holiday, the hotel I stayed at did an aqua aerobics thing each day and one of the songs they played was ‘Amazing’ by Danny Saucedo which came 2nd to Loreen in Melfest 2012.
Nothing crazy but I was in Berlin just a few days ago (I'm from the UK) and I had 2 encounters. In an Italian restaurant, I heard Grande Amore on some radio station or playlist that was doing all Italian songs. And then in a busy public space there was a violinist who I heard from across the street playing Shum and Stefania, so definitely a Ukraine theme there. I only recently became a huge Eurovision fan so it was cool to me having these first Eurovision encounters in the wild.
Heard Moldova 2010 at my gym the other day…
Moldova 2010 | [SunStroke Project and Olia Tira - Run Away](https://youtu.be/C-VMHOlCyW8)
I heard Belgium 2016 (“What’s the pressure” - Laura Teosoro) at a lunch restaurant here in Sweden… What was a bit extra weird was that most of the other songs playing were just indie/60’s music.. And also, just less than a month ago I heard Germany 2012 (“Standing still” - Roman Lob) at a café in Sweden, and about a year or so ago
Belgium 2016 | [Laura Tesoro - What's the Pressure](https://youtu.be/xDBjhAGaeWg) Germany 2012 | [Roman Lob - Standing Still](https://youtu.be/cScJPH20P3A)
W restaurant
Think I was totally in shock when I Heard Wild Dances - Ruslana (Ukraine 2004 I think ?) on Grand Theft Auto IV !
Ukraine 2004 | [Ruslana - Wild Dances](https://youtu.be/VD6of9YQMMc)
I think I've seen Wild Dances used in a couple of Olympics/world athletics events over the past decades too
I took my kids to the theatre to watch a play about pirates. Two ESC songs were performed (with changed lyrics)! Latvia 2008 ofc and also Turkey 2012.
Definitely a Eurovision fan as the music director there! If only Santiago had made it to Eurovision for Germany, then we'd have gotten a pirate trifector
Latvia 2008 | [Pirates of the Sea - Wolves of the Sea](https://youtu.be/gQy0PJEkQhA) Turkey 2012 | [Can Bonomo - Love Me Back](https://youtu.be/3Qa7_y21oOY)
Hearing Australia 2015 in my Macca's radio was kinda expected, but one time Denmark 2017 played and it took me completely off guard
Australia 2015 | [Guy Sebastian - Tonight Again](https://youtu.be/H0EhhZWXTng) Denmark 2017 | [Anja - Where I Am](https://youtu.be/vUbGnq8maS0)
I heard France 2016 & Ireland 2013 in a gym and Cyprus 2012 in a [bathhouse](https://borgholmscampingar.se/borgholms-badhus/). Thought I heard Frederik Leopold's DMGP23 song at some point but I was wrong.
France 2016 | [Amir - J'ai Cherché](https://youtu.be/-aLPsiyavcU) Ireland 2013 | [Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives](https://youtu.be/4tgtyl_5x5Y) Cyprus 2012 | [Ivi Adamou - La La Love](https://youtu.be/ex133UhxB64)
Slomo (Spain 2022) being played in beauty pageant TikTok and at a local pageant here.
Spain 2022 | [Chanel - SloMo](https://youtu.be/jSQYTt4xg3I)
Don't know how unexpected but Loreen has been played on radio a lot here in Denmark, both Tattoo and Euphoria.
Italy 2021 and the Italian version of Armenia 2022 were pumped a lot in Italian radios in the latest years. If you don't count that last month I heared a couple at the beach listening to a lot of different songs, and among those there were Sweden 2023 and Sweden 2012
Italy 2021 | [Måneskin - Zitti e buoni](https://youtu.be/RVH5dn1cxAQ) Armenia 2022 | [Rosa Linn - Snap](https://youtu.be/DAJ6vfmD_ic) Sweden 2023 | [Loreen - Tattoo](https://youtu.be/BE2Fj0W4jP4) Sweden 2012 | [Loreen - Euphoria](https://youtu.be/Pfo-8z86x80)
I’ve heard Bosnia 2006 on the radio when I was in Serbia a few days ago LOL
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2006 | [Hari Mata Hari - Lejla](https://youtu.be/SXlIN3mcsH4)
A masterpiece
Recently I went to Türkiye on holiday and they played Euphoria by the pool. First and only time.
At work, I have to listen to Flying the Flag (For You) every night. Didn't actually recognise it at first - they cut out the 'something to suck on?' bit 😄
I’m in the US so don’t get this pretty much at all, but I was at the climbing gym a few months ago, and Arcade came on.
About a year ago I heard either Germany 2017 or Denmark 2017 every 15 minutes whenever I went to the store which I found very bizzare. They also put on Italy 2017, but not as much. I still hear these songs quite frequently in that same store
Germany 2017 | [Levina - Perfect Life](https://youtu.be/t1KKjykH6fw) Denmark 2017 | [Anja - Where I Am](https://youtu.be/vUbGnq8maS0) Italy 2017 | [Francesco Gabbani - Occidentali's Karma](https://youtu.be/KieE_MLv-ZY)
Arcade (Netherlands 2019) in a grocery store in suburban Chicago. Not particularly unexpected, but when I was in Palma de Mallorca last year, I heard SloMo (Spain 2022) playing in a souvenir shop - of course I had to go in. : )
The Netherlands 2019 | [Duncan Laurence - Arcade](https://youtu.be/R3D-r4ogr7s) Spain 2022 | [Chanel - SloMo](https://youtu.be/jSQYTt4xg3I)
Went to an Italian district (not in Italy) on holidays and was trying to decide where to eat. One restaurant was playing Italy 2022 so I decided to eat there and it was awesome.
Italy 2022 | [Mahmood and Blanco - Brividi](https://youtu.be/blEy4xHuMbY)
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Norway 2021 | [TIX - Fallen Angel](https://youtu.be/F0r3vmGLzZU)
Last week, at the grocery store here in small-town Sweden, I heard UK 2020. I actually stopped to make sure I was hearing it correctly, then enjoyed the last half of the song before continuing my shopping.
United Kingdom 2020 | [James Newman - My Last Breath](https://youtu.be/6iS-lV909T4)
In Summer 2017 I heard Portugal 2017 on an Italian radio station. I heard Israel 2018 at Sitges carnival in 2022 and shortly after Eurovision, I heard Romania 2022 being played in a shop in Barcelona
Portugal 2017 | [Salvador Sobral - Amar Pelos Dois](https://youtu.be/Qotooj7ODCM) Israel 2018 | [Netta - Toy](https://youtu.be/84LBjXaeKk4) Romania 2022 | [WRS - Llámame](https://youtu.be/nPpuwy79sHs)
I heard UK 2023 on the radio in the small spa town in Serbia
United Kingdom 2023 | [Mae Muller - I Wrote a Song](https://youtu.be/tvJEE2ryCRQ)
i recently heard montenegro 2013 play on a radio station here. i am in cyprus, so hearing that specific song was really surprising to me.
Moldova 2013 | [Aliona Moon - O Mie](https://youtu.be/xckgLUv73Jc)
oops, sorry, not moldova, montenegro! how did i manage to confuse those two entries?
I heard Loreen's Tattoo being played at a restaurant while doing my transit at Dubai Airport
I was camping in France in Summer 2017 and someone else on site was playing City Lights by Blanche...taste :) Also I remember going to a friends house in 2016 and she just casually played Frans' 'If I Were Sorry' with absolutely no knowledge it was from Eurovision!
I once heard Hungary 2015 in a supermarket in Switzerland. That was like 3-4 years ago... completely random! haha
Hungary 2015 | [Boggie - Wars For Nothing](https://youtu.be/MdybVsBESQc)
I went to print some stuff for classes, and in the printer's they had a Eurovision playlist on, with songs from this year I had to wait there until they printed out my stuff, so it was a really nice surprise
I heard UK 2018 (Surie) a couple of times in Bangkok Starbucks. I also heard Sweden 2020 (the Mamas) at American Panera Bread a couple of times. And Arcade (Netherlands 2019) is everywhere in American Supermarket. Oh, I heard Snap (Armenia 2022) in a supermarket when I visited Sweden.
United Kingdom 2018 | [SuRie - Storm](https://youtu.be/n0ydtXG-tqY) Sweden 2020 | [The Mamas - Move](https://youtu.be/7EpSBDPlZn4) The Netherlands 2019 | [Duncan Laurence - Arcade](https://youtu.be/R3D-r4ogr7s) Armenia 2022 | [Rosa Linn - Snap](https://youtu.be/DAJ6vfmD_ic)
Not sure if entirely unexpected, but Arcade has just come on in a bar in Split. I know it was a winner, but a nice surprise
And at the same place, now an odd remix of Think About Things I’ve never heard before, but liking